Penelope Shuttle

We have to highlight Penelope Shuttle's great piece in TheWolf, from issue 17, July 2004 called "There". It has a really fresh take on modern ideas, a type of crystalline post-modern style that is very appealing. I am the last person to accept anything after 1930 poetry-wise, but this is great. Here's an excerpt from the end:


[...]

The trees stowed away their leaves

Like a seraph, the willow lingered

I was there
like September in the north,
like a keepsake of the sun

I was there forever.